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feel like you're not understanding the cap here. we DO have that much space AFTER maxing reaves because reaves's cap hold is 21 million, no matter what salary we sign him to. that's factored into the 50 million. you simply time his signing last. this happens all the time and is why lebron not getting the PO was such a HUGE deal. had that not happened, you'd be right, and we'd be at lebron's whim, trading everything that's not nailed down for demar derozan or something.

and once the season starts, we'll have plenty of tradable salary in the form of...whatever we spend the 50 million on. if we completely strike out, you sign brook lopez's corpse to a one-year 25 million dollar deal meant to be traded like gs did with kuminga last summer. easy peasy

Theoretically, but that’s not being realistic. Ayton is getting a pay raise. If Rui wasn't traded, he's getting resigned. We won't have 50M to spend.

Signing Brook's corpse, doesn't help improve the team any. How do you replace Lebron's impact with whatever is left?

Otherwise we just let Lebron and Rui walk for nothing, so what free agent targets, are you thinking about, (in the 20-25M) range, that's going to replace those numbers?

The team just took 2-3 steps back for some cap space, in a weak a** free agent market? That's not my idea, of some kind of great plan..



rob made four great mid-level moves just this summer: ayton for 7 million. smart for 5. laravia for 6. and NOT DFS for 12.

nobody saw any of that coming. i trust him more than us, tbh.

Implying that Rob orchestrated the buyouts? I'm more crediting those move to Luka's presence. You can give it all to Rob, but if we lost to Houston in the 1st rd? I trust Rob to land on his feet somewhere, after getting fired.

 

A. Gordon is 30. He just signed a 4 year-deal. He plays most of his mins defensively at the 4 (like 98 percent). He'll have 3 more left after this year. Do we take a chance there if assuming LBJ retires? Braun, Watson, and Jones play way more mins at the wing and all arer appropriately size 6'6 and above...just a thought.

 

Freaking Clippers won last 11 games out of 13